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- 2019
- TV-14
- DC Universe
- 2019
- TV-14
- DC Universe
Summary The animated comedy series follows Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) after her break up with the Joker as she looks to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham and join the Legion of Doom with the help from Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell).
- 2019
- TV-14
- DC Universe
- 2019
- TV-14
- DC Universe
Harley Quinn
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 27, 2019
6.8
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Summary The animated comedy series follows Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) after her break up with the Joker as she looks to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham and join the Legion of Doom with the help from Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell).
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
86
95% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
86
95% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
5% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The way the show continues to surprise and delight audiences among the carnage and the crassness is an entirely unique charm that “Harley Quinn” can continue to boast. ... “Harley Quinn” transcends the conventions of the animated superhero series, adapting a personality as unflinching and unique as its heroine and namesake.
By exploring the murkiness of who’s a hero and who’s a villain in the context of the anarchy that is Harley Quinn’s Gotham, while centering so much of the action around its core love story, the show hits a whole other level.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 407 User Ratings
6.8
69% Positive
282 Ratings
282 Ratings
7% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
24% Negative
98 Ratings
98 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 407 User Ratings
6.8
69% Positive
282 Ratings
282 Ratings
7% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
24% Negative
98 Ratings
98 Ratings
Thank you Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for creating Harley Quinn, one of my favorite characters since childhood, both as a villain and as an anti-hero. it is well-written, and the animations are fantastic. Great show.
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Episode after episode, this season careens through twists and turns like a candy-colored—and, for a while, black-and-white—runaway train.
Harley Quinn is funny, ballsy, and willing to take risks for better characters. ... DC Universe subscribers will be thrilled by its comedy amusement park while casual fans of Harley or smart animation may find themselves with a new reason to subscribe.
It's generally great. ... The only thing holding Harley Quinn back is the creeping feeling that it wants to be the craziest possible version of a normal Batman story.
The animation feels like that of a typical Saturday morning cartoon, but its acidic scripts and shocking bursts of gore reminds you that “Harley Quinn” is taking full advantage of airing on a streaming service without censors. ... Sharp voice performances across the board from actors clearly relishing the chance to play in this world also prove too fun to resist. ... Most importantly, Harley gets to be an entire person all her own, as heartbreakingly naive as she is wickedly strange and funny.
The result of this very adult comedy (seriously, not for kids) feels very inside baseball -- skewed as it is toward the kind of fanboys who'll appreciate the way-inside jokes and savor the overall naughtiness.
Not even going to bother
I barely watched the first season, can't say anything, too disappointing and too overrated. This is a blasphemy, a bad copy of all the other rivals, they took and made everything that I don't like. I won't say more because it took too much of my time already. At your own risk try it. Peace!
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I really wanted to like this show especially since it was well-marketed and the art and animation is phenomenal for an Americanized anime. While the narrative is fitting to Harley Quinn's style as is the feminist tone she's been associated with since conception, it's the overall ideology-forcing and complete lack of self-awareness that was the final nail in the coffin.
Now the characters are pretty shallow and hard to relate to, and that's because the male ones are always portrayed as beta males or over-powered dunces without tact. It didn't feel empowering to females, but instead just came off as ignorant of how human beings interact. Batman is overly gullible and sensitive, Joker is just a **** rather than actually funny and clever, and many core villains are just done total injustice. I can't tell if it's bad writing or the author just wanting to portray men negatively in an effort to portray women positively.
Clayface was a great character, Shark King was just okay though his portrayal left something to be desired. But oh my God they just butchered the handling of Dr. Psycho. Now Dr. Psycho was a character with a great deal of potential, lots of intelligence and emotion, clearly an underdog who got thrown under the bus for saying the word **** to his enemy. I thought his arc would be about embracing his offensiveness or growing into a leader in his own right, but instead they just spend the entire series having all his allies be verbally cruel, petty and hateful towards him. It left a bad taste in my mouth.
Plus this one episode in season 2 where they just point out valid criticism of the show, but then pretend it's just bad criticism for no real reason by portraying the critic as a sexist hypocrite, made me want to leave this review. It made me think: "wow, this show was finally meta, and yet still managed to be totally self-unaware." Harley Quinn as a series is very very average. And if you want average, you'll get it. The author dropped the ball in making this more than just an average show. Great color work and animation, some characters are compelling and interesting such as Ivy and Quinn.
But, taken as a whole you get a lot of character mishandling, heavy-handed ideology pushing, and an author that clearly hates their critics more than actually wants to understand the valid weight of the criticism. This show needed another author to fine-tune the characters to be believable and intelligent, to curb the heavy-handed ideology pushing, and to tell this author that men are not a bunch of **** ****. Did the author think women hate men or something? It really leaves a bad taste in the mouth and makes me dislike the author on a personal level.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company:
- DC Entertainment
- Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions
- Ehsugadee
- Warner Bros. Animation
- Yes, Norman Productions
Initial Release Date: Jul 27, 2019
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Annie Awards
• 4 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
